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Last three days I’ve met Pat Teoh & Yati Amzah from Paper and Toast. They wanted to know more about Officekami and invited me for a tea. While discussing and bombing their minds with what Officekami/Mobileoffice is, Yati told me

“wow you even have a sort of code of conduct”

And the day before I’ve met them, I’ve twitted about that we/mobilewarriors should be assistive. In my mind, I have already planned some of the rules so i thought, it is the right time to spill it over, at least before I forget.

Behold, this is The MobileWarriors Code

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One has to go out of their permanent office.

The most basic rule. If you do not go out from your office and if you do not doing your work at mobileoffices you are not mobile warriors. But when you step inside any of places that are not office, but you’re doing your job. Then you’ve become one Mobile warriors. So step out from your office (even it is home office), and become one of us, Mobilewarriors.

One has to be assistive and courtesy.

During your adventure as Mobilewarriors, one may met someone else who in dire need. If you’ve at your mobile office and you saw another seems-to-be mobilewarriors looking for plug, point them the plug that you knew. If you have plug extensions, then share it with them. If they’re looking at the plug and you’re battery already charged, give them the plug so they could charge too. If you’re mobile-office-ing at a fast food joint, make sure to occupy a single or two seater table. If you didn’t have a choice but to occupy 4 seater table, then make sure there still other seat for other customers to have their meals on. If the area become jampacked during lunch hour, leave the places and give area to others who really need it.

One has to spend at mobileoffices.

When you’re working at those mobileoffices, buy some food and drinks to support their business. You’re using their resources so it is unethical to just using their WiFi or electricity without paying a penny. Buy even just a cup of coffee to support them.

One has to be careful with their surroundings.

A mobilewarriors should be alert and aware with their surroundings. Never ever leave the laptop unattended. Our laptop is our most precious weapon in our line of job so how can you fight without your spear a.k.a laptop? Bring Kensington Lock or do your work with your friend in that case. Or ask friendly staff to guard over your laptop in case you’ve need to be away.

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That is, 4 code of conduct to become one of us, Mobile Warriors. Hope you can use it as a guideline before calling yourself a Mobile warriors

Assalamualaikum and Peace Be Upon You dear Mobile Warriors, and readers. Here I am, another Friday sermon LOL for you guys. I’ll be giving this kinda sermon every 2-weeks friday so keep on coming. And please, if you have something to ask and need me to wrote it, contact me then

Now back to the topic, how to become a responsible Mobile Warriors?

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Peace be upon you mobile warriors. Now, for Officekami Friday Sermon ( much alike Islamic Friday Prayer, before they pray, have to listen to sermon ) I’m going to talk about…. Who needs who ?

Actually regarding this topic, I’ve been thinking about it weeks ago. Just didn’t have time to wrote about it. Then today, comes a wake up call for me.

If you didn’t understand malay, Noktahhitam, ranting about Web Dev problem in Malaysia, late payments.

I do agree with him.

From my perspective, web industry is an underpaid industry. Now I don’t want to talk about big shot agency who house 20++ developers that may range from Information Architects or Bug Tester, or just CSS designer or copywriter. These big shot agency usually doesn’t face this problem because they have high capitals and high turn overs. They may only deal with industry or brands.

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Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera. Anda bersama ruang tazkirah Officekami (cewah) Tazkirah == short sermon in arabic.

Hari ini saya berminat untuk membincangkan mengenai Etika Pekerjaan. Ha bagi Muslim yang wajib berpuasa sewaktu membaca artikel ini ( kerana ditulis pada bulan Ramadhan ), jangan kerana bulan puasa kita tidak produktif semasa bekerja. Rasulullah S.A.W siap pergi perang masa bulan puasa dahulu ditengah-tengah gurun, bukan Gurun kat Kedah. Pekerjaan kita adalah suatu ibadah dan jika kena caranya, kita mendapat pahala disisi Allah S.W.T.

Kerja itu Ibadah

Islam telah menetapkan satu prinsip yang jelas berkaitan sesuatu kerja yang boleh dikategorikan sebagai ibadat. Imam Ghazali dalam kitabnya Ihya’ Ulumuddin menjelaskan bahawa setiap pekerjaan itu hendaklah menepati ciri-ciri berikut iaitu:

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Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera buat para designer, webdesigner, programmer, dan pekerja sekalian. Sebelum saya memulakan topik ini, lihat sahaja gambar dibawah hasil karya N.C Winters di FreelanceSwitch.

Ada rasa nak gelak ? Ha jangan lupa sambung baca

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